Crawford, Oshea W

Crawford, Oshea W.

a Free-will Baptist minister, was born at Brunswick, Maine, in November 1809. When he was eight years of age his parents removed to Chautauqua County, N.Y. He became a Christian at fifteen, was licensed to preach in 1829, and ordained in 1834. He preached in Canada West, New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Michigan, and died at Chesterfield, Lucas County, Ohio, March 10, 1846. See Free-will Baptist Register, 1850, page 78. (J.C.S.)